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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798" Lines 1-50.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of "Tintern Abbey"?
(a) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(b) William Wordsworth.
(c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(d) John Keats.

2. Which of the following describes the term "pastoral farms" (line 16)?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Pleonasm.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Oxymoron.

3. Which is the best definition of "sportive" in the context of line 16?
(a) Of or related to sports.
(b) Competitive to the point of aggression.
(c) Ungovernable, unmanageable.
(d) Carried away by playful emotion.

4. What kind of image opens the poem?
(a) A tactile image of the grass and tree bark.
(b) An olfactory image of smoke.
(c) A visual image of the mountains.
(d) An auditory image of the water.

5. How long has it been since the speaker was last in this place?
(a) Seven years.
(b) Four years.
(c) Six years.
(d) Five years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the best definition of "sublime" in the context of line 38?

2. What does the speaker mean when he says he was "'mid the din/ Of towns and cities" (lines 26-27)?

3. The word "murmur" in line 4 is an example of which technique?

4. In line 26, how does the speaker characterize the rooms he has been in in the city?

5. Line 33's use of the phrase "As have no slight or trivial influence" is an example of which technique?

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